[235] ἀΓῌ̂σιν: this is practically the manuscript reading, and is certainly right. Barnes' “ἄγωσιν” should not have been accepted by Baumeister and others. As Gemoll sees, “ἐν ἄλσεϊ δενδρήεντι” cannot follow a verb of motion; we should have expected “ἐς ἄλσεα δενδρήεντα”. The meaning of ἀΓῌ̂σιν may be either “broken to fragments” or more probably, “broken off at the end of the pole”; cf. Il. 6.40 “, Π” 371.
The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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